Community Based Protection Coordinator NGO Jobs – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Job Title: Community Based Protection Coordinator
Organization: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About NRC:
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 30 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP is a global provider of expertise that contributes to solving challenges in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors. Our ultimate goal is to strengthen the resilience, and protect the lives, rights and livelihoods of vulnerable people and communities. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.
Job Summary: The purpose of the Community Based Protection Coordinator position is to implement delegated protection project portfolio. This position reports to the Area Programme Manager.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identify implementation opportunities for cash-based interventions and market based programme and support staff implement quality timely programmes
- Contribute to creating an enabling environment for the implementation of cash-based interventions, working with support teams in the institutionalization of cash (capacity building, guidance and SOP development).
- Support the implementation of NRC’s Protection Policy and global protection mainstreaming standards within Country Office through working with programme management.
- Develop protection mainstreaming tools and guidance, community based programming and continually update protection mainstreaming action plans to ensure integrated and safe programming.
- Support the training, capacity building and mentoring of field staff and awareness raising of non-staff (contractors and incentive labour) on minimum protection standards
- Identify gaps in terms of field-based protection support and line manage any additional field-based protection staff (camps and urban) to ensure support to programme management on specific programme initiatives and staff mentoring.
- Convene regular meetings of Programme (Protection) Referral focal points to ensure quality in protection referrals in line with NRC internal SOPs.
- Develop strong working relationships at the Kampala AO level with external protection actors and referral partners. Represent NRC at the field level in protection coordination meetings
- Produce regular context analysis updates on key protection trends and contribute to programme development discussions.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Community Based Protection Coordinator job must have two years of experience for working as Protection Coordinator in a humanitarian/recovery context
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Experience working in coordination and liaising with external actors
- Experience developing and delivering protection training and good presentation skills in English
- Ability to multi-task and work with short deadlines
- Ability to work independently and proactively with limited daily support and supervision
Personal Qualities
- Knowledge of the context in Kampala Urban Refugee settlement
- Knowledge of global protection standards and relevant bodies of international law
NB: Shortlisting will be done on a rolling basis, candidates are advised to apply ASAP. Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates who wish to join NRC in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 10thJanuary 2020